Video Game Meat Shield
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A Video Game Meat Shield is a video game term in which a character uses another player character or non-player character's body as a shield.
- Example(s):
- A Tank is an example of meatshield.
- The game Gears of Wars allows players to use other players as meatshield.
- See: Tank.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_(gaming) Retrieved:2017-5-27.
- A tank (also known as a meat shield) is a style of character in gaming, often associated with a character class. A common convention in real-time strategy games, role-playing games, fighting games, multiplayer online battle arenas and MUDs, tanks redirect enemy attacks or attention toward themselves in order to protect other characters or units. Since this role often requires them to suffer large amounts of damage, they rely on large amounts of vitality or armor, healing by other party members, evasiveness and misdirection, or self regeneration.
Tanks are often represented as large or heavily armored.
- A tank (also known as a meat shield) is a style of character in gaming, often associated with a character class. A common convention in real-time strategy games, role-playing games, fighting games, multiplayer online battle arenas and MUDs, tanks redirect enemy attacks or attention toward themselves in order to protect other characters or units. Since this role often requires them to suffer large amounts of damage, they rely on large amounts of vitality or armor, healing by other party members, evasiveness and misdirection, or self regeneration.